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Kanban Exercise

Dhaval Panchal — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:02:41 +0000

Kanban at its essence is a signaling device that instructs the moving or creating in a “pull” based system. Kanban when applied within a system enables synchronization between the rhythm of demand (customer) and rhythm of production (producer). The pace or beat, of customer demand is takt time. In other words to enable just in time production of goods it is [...]

CPR Technique

Dhaval Panchal — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:55:14 +0000

The software world has misused so many terms from the medical profession that one more would not hurt.

CPR – Categorize, Prioritize, Resolve.

This is simple mnemonic that aids me to be methodical in my approach towards uncovering and resolving impediments.

Categorize:

How do you view your world?

To me lack of impediments is like moving [...]

Virtual Parkbench

Dhaval Panchal — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 03:11:02 +0000

For large distributed retrospectives, where participants in the retrospective are in different cities, I have created a variation of popular group discussion technique called as “Park Bench”.

Some Background: I was coaching within a large organization with different scrum teams distributed in three separate cities, Bellevue, WA; Chicago, IL and Waterloo, Canada. This organization had [...]